Congratulations We"ve Gotten Americans to Stop Thinking - Now What?
Over the years, I feel as if I've been witnessing the dumbing down of America.
At first I wondered if perhaps I was just getting smarter, so I decided to go do a little experiment.
Each day I go to Starbucks, sometimes different Starbucks locations and I talk to the local natives about any topic they care to discuss.
I listen to them very carefully, their opinions, ideas, and thoughts.
I try to break out of the general chit chat about the weather, and silly items being replayed in the news media.
I want to know if they're really thinking.
Most of them aren't, and I do believe we are dumbing down America, and therefore I'd like to congratulate the powers that be that they have accomplished their task in dumbing down the population so far that they can pretty much do whatever they want.
Unfortunately, they can't do much with a population full of imbeciles, ignoramuses, or people that can't think out of a paper bag, which is a growing percentage of our population, I'm sure you've noticed as well.
Perhaps this is why we keep making so many ridiculous laws protecting the dumbest person in our society from themselves, or why we feel the need to move into socialism and make our government the provider of all things, and the extended parents of all these individuals as they grow into adulthood.
So yes, congratulations and all that, we've gotten Americans to stop thinking - beautiful, wonderful, what a brilliant and interesting strategy indeed.
What gets me is maybe the powers that be didn't think this through very well.
We may be able to control the masses and get them to line up in nice little rank-and-file lines, but if we have to tell them, train them, and educate them on how to do everything, and protect them when they can't, and become their nanny for the duration of their life, then what's the use? What's the endgame, and what are we going to do about it? Maybe it's time we stop putting fluoride in the water, raise the reading level of the newspapers, and stop this insanity of rote memorization in our education system.
If everything is available online all the time, then there's no reason for everyone to memorize a bunch of inane facts, many of which they will never use, some of which aren't even true.
What we need to do is teach people to think, get them to understand economics, balance their check books, and have enough self-esteem to stand up and ask questions, and that means yes, questioning authority too.
We can't have it both ways.
Please consider all this and think on it.
At first I wondered if perhaps I was just getting smarter, so I decided to go do a little experiment.
Each day I go to Starbucks, sometimes different Starbucks locations and I talk to the local natives about any topic they care to discuss.
I listen to them very carefully, their opinions, ideas, and thoughts.
I try to break out of the general chit chat about the weather, and silly items being replayed in the news media.
I want to know if they're really thinking.
Most of them aren't, and I do believe we are dumbing down America, and therefore I'd like to congratulate the powers that be that they have accomplished their task in dumbing down the population so far that they can pretty much do whatever they want.
Unfortunately, they can't do much with a population full of imbeciles, ignoramuses, or people that can't think out of a paper bag, which is a growing percentage of our population, I'm sure you've noticed as well.
Perhaps this is why we keep making so many ridiculous laws protecting the dumbest person in our society from themselves, or why we feel the need to move into socialism and make our government the provider of all things, and the extended parents of all these individuals as they grow into adulthood.
So yes, congratulations and all that, we've gotten Americans to stop thinking - beautiful, wonderful, what a brilliant and interesting strategy indeed.
What gets me is maybe the powers that be didn't think this through very well.
We may be able to control the masses and get them to line up in nice little rank-and-file lines, but if we have to tell them, train them, and educate them on how to do everything, and protect them when they can't, and become their nanny for the duration of their life, then what's the use? What's the endgame, and what are we going to do about it? Maybe it's time we stop putting fluoride in the water, raise the reading level of the newspapers, and stop this insanity of rote memorization in our education system.
If everything is available online all the time, then there's no reason for everyone to memorize a bunch of inane facts, many of which they will never use, some of which aren't even true.
What we need to do is teach people to think, get them to understand economics, balance their check books, and have enough self-esteem to stand up and ask questions, and that means yes, questioning authority too.
We can't have it both ways.
Please consider all this and think on it.
